Moscow has been a cake walk so far. Easy set up reserve army right and dig 4 fort belts, fill in holes with training unit by the time GHC is near you have 12 deep of 2 to 4 lvl forts with flanks covered.

Rostov and AGB is a draw so far. River defence was good, but I needed to fight forward more. Checker board is safe but gimppy doesn't really stop anything.

Over all for my first 41 summer not bad. Basicly from what I see the blizzard is HUGE for SHC.

I am of two minds of this - on the one hand, my oft-stated Red Army philosophy is to put your guys where they stand a chance of fighting on even ground, and Leningrad fits this. On the other hand, it can be so hard to extract units that are committed to Leningrad once the fighting goes south (i.e. turns against you). Based on your and MTs game, I'm starting to lean towards the commitment model...

I am of two minds of this - on the one hand, my oft-stated Red Army philosophy is to put your guys where they stand a chance of fighting on even ground, and Leningrad fits this. On the other hand, it can be so hard to extract units that are committed to Leningrad once the fighting goes south (i.e. turns against you). Based on your and MTs game, I'm starting to lean towards the commitment model...

One of the things I like about the right hook it is a winner no matter what.

You hit the one thing it will do no matter if you take Leningrad or not. SHC is forsed to commit all its extra troops and as you stated they can't be extracted to below Tula in time for blizzrad. There by making surviving the blizzard for infantry much much easyer.

1941 is realy about gaining space for blizzard and building morale. SHC only hope of stopping a good 1942 GHC summer is for a good blizzard.

If Leningrad is taken it releases fins and GHC forses are shifted south. If not SHC has the majority of extra forses and best units in north where it is easy to defend as GHC.

If Leningrad is not taken it makes for interesting issue come 42 summer, but forses are in a much smaller area of operations making pocketing SHC units easyer and quicker then if front is long.

There is a point when dummping extra units into Leningrad for SHC becomes a loser in long run.

Thats what game is about now, long run not like the old days of 95% of games ending in early 42 one way or other.

Summer is over and so far Moscow is good. I have kept loses below 3 million and amry should be at around 5 million for blizzard. I have 3 armys of cav and mech in reserve that are at 50+ morale. Plus some strong forses are arriving so I have 4 or 5 to throw into blizzard offensive.

North:

Not happy with the early lose of Leningrad, but after playing MT I dont think it can be held. I found the weakeness and strength of right hook vs MT and found there is no way it can be held( My chances of taking in MT game is low because of my weak spot in that strategy,but I have changed 1 thing so it can't be held in coming games as GHC.)

But in this game I should have held it longer and in future games will change things up some.

I have a few weak spots I can exploit during blizzard. My blizzard exp is zero so should be interesting.

Very happy went as I expected. The German wave went north and south of my Reserver army postions as in most games. Just dig in early and you should be able to hold it even with the early lose of Leningrad.

Moscow is dug in very deep with more infantry being sent to area to north of Moscow. I expect GHC to push for a turn or two then pull back in front of Moscow. There are alrdy strong Cav and mech units in area so blizzard offensive forses are rdy to go first turn.

Over attacks are nothing to write home about to Stalin. It’s a mess of colors at the front, but effective enough heheh. Figuring it out on the fly.

I could be doing much better, but its my first blizzard. I see about a dozen things I can do next time around to improve on what I am doing, what a newbie I am heheh.

Anyways in the North I have pushed through the lvl 2 fort line and have 1 unit in big trouble and several more that could be next turn. If GHC doen't back it in and run like hell This could get messy really fast.

West of Moscow 5 divisions are in deep **** already, I just figured out I have a Shock Army heheh. I put a good leader in charge and a bunch of 50 morale cav/mech and a few large infantry. Lets see what that does next turn.